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MOSCOW - A proposed affordable senior housing project got a series of key approvals from the Moscow Zoning Hearing Board on Thursday.

The board granted a special exception allowing the commercial lot on Academy Street to be used for multi-family dwellings along with a set of variances enabling the planning commission to consider subdividing the land.

PPS Management has been converting the former Academy Street School into a 20-unit apartment complex on parcels totaling 5.18 acres. Developer Mark Paradise envisions separating the apartments into a 1.74 acre lot and using the remaining 3.44 acre lot that currently includes a wooded area for two, 24-unit senior housing complexes.

Thursday's variances were designed to turn the property into developable land and largely reduced required space between the property and either roads or nearby properties from 100 feet to 50 feet from several angles.

Each of the board's 11 decisions was unanimous, except for one "no" vote from Guy Palmer against reducing the 100-foot buffer between properties on the Main Street side to the east. Mr. Palmer was concerned about runoff impacting nearby businesses.

"It's only one of many steps, and every step gets more difficult," Mr. Paradise said after the decisions.

Mr. Paradise said the earliest he could envision beginning construction is the spring of 2015, which would take 12 to 18 months.

If the planning commission approves the subdivision, Mr. Paradise said the next step is more engineering work to flesh out the plan that is largely conceptual so far. Then the planning commission would take up the land development plan.

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